1.How does Robert Williams, Jr., describe the Great Indigenous American Storytel

1.How does Robert Williams, Jr., describe the Great Indigenous American Storytel

1.How does Robert Williams, Jr., describe the Great Indigenous American Storyteller (xii)? Does Delgado qualify as a Great Indigenous American Storyteller? What about Rodrigo and/or the Professor? Why or why not?
2.What is the social function of “outsider stories” (xii-xiii) according to Williams?
3.Do any of Rodrigo’s and/or the Professor’s stories qualify as “outsider stories” according to Williams’s definition? Why or why not?
4.Williams describes Rodrigo as a “trickster” who can “shape shift” (xii). Does Rodrigo fit these descriptions in the first chronicle? Which (if any) of his stories could be seen as trickster tales? How does it affect your response to the stories if you view them as “trickster tales”?
5.According to Williams, “[h]ow you read this book will depend on how you imagine yourself—on the outside, on the inside, in-between” (xiv). Where do you situate yourself within “the different paths of American contemporary life” (xiii)—outside, inside, in-between? Why?